Nationwide, paper and cardboard account for 41 percent of all
municipal solid waste--that's close to half of all the garbage generated
in the U.S.
Paper and cardboard are easily recycled, yet the United States recycles
only about 25 percent of the paper it consumes annually. In comparison,
Sweden
and Switzerland recycle 40 percent, and Japan recycles 50 percent.
Recycling our Sunday
newspapers alone would save 500,000 trees every week.

You can put the following measures into
place to reduce the amount
of paper going into the landfill by 13 percent: